Issues of rape, reproductive rights, domestic violence and workplace safety were brought to the forefront of the movement and there was widespread effort to reform the negative and inferior image of women in popular culture to a more positive and realistic one. While the First Wave was largely concerned with the suffragette struggle for the vote, the Second Wave focused more on both public and private injustices. This movement was initially concentrated in the United States of America and then spread to other Western countries. However, after having worked and been independent of male dominance during the war, women didn’t want to resume these roles and this brought about the Second Wave of feminism. Housewives were estimated to spend an average of 55 hours a week on domestic chores. Women were expected to quietly resume their lives as loyal and subjugated wives. The men that had to leave the workforce to join the defence forces had returned and women were fired from their positions and replaced by men.ģ8 percent of American women who worked in the 1960s were largely limited to jobs as teachers, nurses or secretaries. It was a reaction to women returning to their roles as housewives and mothers after the end of the Second World War. The Second Wave of feminism is usually demarcated from the 1960s to the late 1980s. Read the first part here: A Brief Summary Of The First Wave Of Feminism
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